So today while checking out various blogs, I came across an interesting piece at Insanity Bytes. Her article concerns a Twitter statement of some sort which has been floating around again recently. Her article is a good read, but the meme she was criticizing is such a perfect specimen of contemporary propaganda, I thought it worth a discussion here.
Let's review again the diagram of propagandist promotion:
What we have here is a meme, or symbol, conveying an idea. The majority of Christians or Conservatives who read it are offended by it, but that is only part of the reaction that the propagandists intend to invoke. They certainly knew that their dupes would applaud what was said and that their opponents would be offended by it. But recall that the purpose of symbols, slogans, and memes is to reduce the Basic Doctrine into an idea that is accepted without thinking. What this meme is actually promoting is 'woke' culture's glorification of poverty.
Our culture has undergone for some time a relentless barrage of propaganda glorifying poverty to the point where street bums are regarded here like sacred cows are in India. The Left has demonized what they call 'materialism' and 'consumerism' for the last 30 years or so; and more recently we've been bombarded with supposed virtues of downsizing and "making do with less." Now Common Sense would tell anybody that poverty is not a blessing; that living like a bum is undignified; and that actually the better quality possessions one has, the better equipped one is for dealing with the problems in life. But when all the answers are contained in a slogan, there's no answer with reason.
Getting people to accept the idea that poverty is noble fits in well with a gang whose stated goal is to deprive us all of private property by 2030. This is why we've done an extended series on how the machinery of propaganda works. It's like the famous scene from the 1962 film The Manchurian Candidate: once the symbol of the Queen of Diamonds was understood, the illusion disappeared. Once it's understood that the whole purpose of a meme like the one above is simply to trick you into surrendering your right to property, it has no power over your mind.
In our last article, we outlined the six techniques of a propaganda campaign; and looking back at the list one sees that this meme checks every single box. 1) It is stated in simplistic terms; 2) it exaggerates by comparing its premise with a false depiction of Christ's approval; 3) it is part of an ongoing 'narrative' against 'materialism'; 4) it plays upon pre-existing sentiments; both positive (compassion for the poor) and negative (envy of those with greater possessions); 5) it was attributed to some celebrity with a large fan-base who presumably agree with him; 6) it sets up Counter-Propaganda by listing caricatures of the political Right. Four out the five stereotypes that the writer sets up imply or advocate Property Rights, and that's what gave the game away, so to speak.
Those who would like to discuss the details of the meme can go over to IB's blog on the link above. Our purpose here was only to dissect it mechanically and also to show how subtly these programs operate. That particular meme was issued in 2019 and is still in currency today. It's success is based on the fact that it's so emotionally loaded that nobody contests its basic idea: that poverty is virtuous. Just asking the question: 'Wait a minute: Why is being a humble servant of the abject poor a good thing?' unravels the whole deception.* (see note).
The Six Principles of Propaganda and the Soviets' Pyramid of Power were synthesized into a three-point method by Communist-employed scientists. The Deep State Elites imported the system for use here before the Iron Curtain fell and have been using it on us ever since.
1. The Planning Stage: At this level, a Base Doctrine is agreed upon as a subject for propagandist action. The action must also be monitored. "The action must be allowed to flow as long as the desired effects are produced, and the planners must be prepared to intervene and correct the narrative if the desired effect is not achieved," reads the abstract. The planners must also prepare Counter-Propaganda: "locating the topics of the opponents' propaganda and attacking them when their position is weak, but abstaining from attacking their strengths. Focus upon debilitating; disdaining the opponent who is under assault; portraying opposing topics as contradicting the facts, ridiculing them; and imposing one's own climate of force."
I think that we should pause momentarily and inquire of all those inclined to sneer at "some grand conspiracy for everything," would like to explain away this point. When we see new normals imposed on society virtually overnight with pundits all reading from the same script and experts all pronouncing the same conclusions---demanding 'change' that is the polar opposite of a long-standing social norm---please explain how these great popular shifts happen without an underlying conspiracy?
The popular conception is that societal attitudes magically change from time to time and through the efforts of populist activists who devote themselves to a cause and make a difference. Nothing could be further from the truth. It is logically and empirically impossible that these movements can succeed without top-down planning, orchestration, and deployment. While spontaneous movements do occur occasionally, they are characterized by their short duration, lack of a solid program, and are typically focused upon a single objective. The Tea Party of 2010 was an example of a spontaneous movement. It grew from Conservatives exasperated with RINO Republicans and aimed at unseating long-term incumbents with populist candidates. The Tea Party really didn't continue as a power much past that election cycle. Weaponized Propaganda continues until the larger objective is accomplished because it comes from organized power and resources.
2. The Target Audience must be Cultivated and Assessed. This consists of "knowing and adapting to the target-audience; selecting a unique, uniform, homogenous public, or one that is undergoing homogenisation; and of applying the contagion." The propagandists aim their initial messages at those in agreement with them or in sympathy with their objectives.
"According to this principle, the reality that mental contagion always intervenes must be exploited in order to determine the special characteristics of the masses and their orientation. Within a mass of people, any feeling, any act is contagious, so contagious that the individual sacrifices easier their personal interest in favor of the collective one. This shows that the group puts pressure on the individual opinion and that the various forms of conformism that arise in society can be managed therein." Again, this situation is nearly impossible to achieve on a large scale unless planning, orchestration and conspiracy is involved.
Many have attributed these irrational social upheavals of today to factors such as our dumbed-down schools and media, and softening of our cultural will through rampant narcotics proliferation. Those policies are part of undergoing homogenization, because to the Elites indifference to and compliance with their agendas is as desirable as willing acceptance of it.
3. The Principles of the Message: are issues we've discussed, the actual technique in practice. The message must be simplified to the lowest common denominator, repeated by rote, while always keeping in sight the Base Doctrine and avoiding any reasoned examination or debate on the topic. The message must appeal to cultural myths or utilize respected figures from history or contemporary celebrities. Exaggerating and magnifying the message into a 'crisis' is to be crafted carefully, either through an incident which can be exploited or a manufactured event.
Gustave Le Bon---one of the first scholars to study mass-psychology---explains that "the distortion of information is perceived by the masses as a novelty, and the novelty in turn is perceived as true information. The delivery of some falsehoods circulating rapidly among crowds is not the result of total credulity, but also of the gross distortions which the events become in the imaginations of the hearers. The most banal story becomes increasingly deformed because the masses think in pictures and the evoked image generates in turn other images in full illogical inconsistency with the first image."
Since this method was developed, Western propagandists learned fear and guilt were deeply rooted in our cultural psyche; and they've pursued a conscious policy of both eroding privacy rights and cultivating suspicion, distrust, and envy of others. By breaking down personal contact while making private details public information sets up an individual in a social climate where fear of exposure makes going with the flow a survival-mechanism. When one believes, through propaganda, that one's neighbor is a potential paedophile, terrorist, or virus-spreader then one sees that he can reduce his own fears and secure social acceptability by turning against his neighbor. The so-called Social Credit System promoted by the globalist Elites is designed to enhance this very dynamic.
So much for the dynamics of how we're being influenced. We hope that this series has helped identify the techniques involved---but also to point out that the Great Reset is not only based in a lie; it's support is based on an illusion. In the next article, we'll conclude with some further remarks on Counter-Propaganda and also how we can protect ourselves against the propagandists' influence.
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* Note: the invocation of Jesus has nothing to do with His actual teachings; how the propagandists portray Christ here is merely a projection of how the WEF/NWO nitwits imagine themselves and their own future roles. As Christ is God and the Earth belongs to Him, these Elites fancy that they will own all the world's wealth; but will use that position to be 'servants of the abject poor;' in this case, all of us from whom they've looted everything. They will become our 'servants' by allowing us to live in their world---reorganized and so constructed for our own good. No doubt that they will expect psalms sung and prayers offered to them as well.
The paradigm really isn't new. Recall in pre-republican times that the King was considered "the father of his people" and all of his subjects "his children." The paid flatterers of these monarchs taught that the King provided a 'Christ-like service' to the little people by graciously allowing them the use of his resources. In the Old South, plantation owners had the same attitudes towards their slaves.
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